Saturday, June 12, 2010

a journey

so yesterday i figured out i was in my head,
not my heart.

okay. i figure that's a trust thing towards my
heart/emotions.

okay. i think about it all day.
here and there i have a tearful conversation.
but...the tears are controlled.
i can tell a lot want to come out. i only let
some out.

i'm thinking i'm making some progress and working
more from the heart when i go off to hear josh
play his music at the relay for life.

i love to hear josh play. lights up everything
for me. THIS will help, i think.

i don't think twice about it being at the relay
for life until i get there.

bam. my heart shuts its doors tight.

i walk by some signs with pictures of women
on them. not sure if they were survivors or not.
cause i didn't stop to read them.
i looked over, saw them, hesitated, as normally
i would have read each one.....i would have spent
a long time reading....
instead, i turned and walked away fast.

i said hello to the guys. zakk was in charge of
sound, noah in charge of pictures, josh in charge
of entertainment.

i pointed to a spot in the field that was empty.
i'd be there, i said. took my book and settled in.

i didn't say hello to any of the women there. i didn't
find out what it was all about and what they were
doing. i didn't want to know.

someone i love has just been told she's incurable.
yeah.
what a word.

i'm havin' a hard time dealing with that.

you would think i would want to hear stories of hope,
stories of survivors.
no.
i just wanted to ignore the whole thing.
pretend cancer doesn't exist.

and so i sat there all by myself and ignored the place.

bob showed up as josh was playing and sat next to me.
i wasn't all alone.

i still felt it tho.

hiding from my heart.

josh did great. rocked the place. i watched him
and loved it. i'm amazed how he can do that. he's
so comfortable up there and chats between songs and
jokes when things mess up.
it's so fun to watch him. and so i got lost in that.

he finished, bob left, i joined the guys.
we talked of where to go grab something to eat.
zakk and i were to decide as we walked back to get my car.

zakk innocently turns to me as we walk and asks
'where do you want to go?'

i choke up.
the people have been talking over the loudspeakers.
i can hear them talking of surviving.

'i just want to get out of here.' i say to him.
he looks over at me, registers how i'm feelin' and
starts talking to drown out the speakers.

i smile at him. joke to him about what he's doin'.
and walk faster to get out of earshot.

obviously i am thrilled people are surviving.
obviously i want people to support each other and have
these kinda events.

i just don't want to think about one of the things
i'm hiding from. that's all.
don't make my heart open.
just don't do that.

funny.
this is what i want.
an open heart.
and this is why i'm posting this.
cause i want to journey to have one.

and it's when times are really full and difficult that
i'll be tested.
so far, i'm not doin' so good.
but that's okay.
cause i'm learning.

i'm watching.
and i'm thinking a lot about it.
and i'm gonna figure this out....while at the same time
i'm gentle and loving to myself.

this is gonna be my topic this weekend.
how do i get from my head to my heart....

not sure yet......
but i'm workin' on it........

3 comments:

AkasaWolfSong said...

So now I've just answered my own question in regards to where Josh was playing...

And oh Dear Heart...I can feel that pain way over here. Yeah, I can...and one thing I've never been able to do is shut off my heart to keep from feeling it. It is impossible for me. Even when I was going through the thick of things in my life and I would be building walls all around me the heart would not close...course I thought it was...I was tough...I'd survive... in spite of what curveballs were being lobbed at me but...it didn't work that way. Not with my inner child either...because what I had always longed for was a heart that trusted and believed in a world worth living in and all that that entails. Well, that is in a perfect life which we know isn't happening but still...my heart is wide open and still, I hurt. I can't stop it nor would I want to at this stage of the game. But I still hold onto hope.
And sometimes I think the head has to, just has to work with the heart...
Sending you love and hugs Ter...
xoxoxoxo

Merry ME said...

My dear friend,
Be gentle with yourself. You are so good at being strong with everyone else. This is a time for you to step inside your cocoon and care for you, with head or heart, sleep or distraction, tears or laughter. I think the heart shuts down some when it needs to store up some energy for the fight ahead. I know there's a metaphor out there but I can't think of it right now.
Don't be hard on yourself. You're head knows what your heart needs. Trust it.

Be gentle. Be gentle.

Sherry said...

So...if you stub your toe or cut your finger, it's gonna be a little more sensitive than usual for a time...and if you break your arm, you don't go out and try to swing a lasso...you need to let the hurts heal...and no, you can't completely baby a wounded part of yourself because then you're denying it's strength and slowing the healing process. It seems like after the hurt your heart just suffered you're behaving exactly as you should. You haven't "closed" your heart...it just needs to rest a bit till it starts to heal from this...maybe being in your head for a while is a psychic bandaid of sorts...just my 11 cents. ;)